Summer. Skin. Extra Crispy. Can there be a better match? Kentucky Fried Chicken doesn't think so. It announced Monday that it would sell Extra Crispy fried-chicken-scented sunscreen for a limited time.

Technology executive Len Kendall says that the day of self-driving cars is fast approaching. He contends that marketers should now look at autonomous cars right behind the smartphone "as a brand new digital platform that your brand can own."

Writer Charles Farrar Browne, aka Artemus Ward, noted, "We all can't be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots." When he wrote that he was, of course, talking about people – not products. But certain brands think it's a philosophy worth leveraging, and sometimes it is.

Pokémon Go is not yet available in Japan, the land where Pokémon was created, but that isn’t stopping McDonald’s from taking advantage of the Pokémon craze there right now instead of sitting on the sidelines waiting.

John Hanke, CEO of Pokémon Go developer Niantic, told The New York Times last week that the game will include "sponsored locations" in the future. McDonald's is the odds-on favorite of being the first of them.